Book #6 in the Chief Inspector Gamache/Three Pines Series.

by Audrey Niffenegger. Really atmospheric. Final sixty pages--no idea where it's gonna take me.

5th in the series about Dr. Siri and his associates. Am enjoying it.


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the last of the Clan of the Cave Bear series. I got it for my birthday

I liked that series a lot. But it was my husband's favorite series, he loved it.

in memoriam. I'm sorry for your loss.

It's funny, when I think back... I began the series in a high school anthropology class at age 15. Through the series I was married, had children, moved, lost a husband, and finally finished the series at 41. Kind of amazing.

Reading:
Catch Me, by Lisa Gardner - latest in the D.D. Warren series, a bit of a ho hum start
Taken, by Robert Crais - latest in the Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series, again, ho hum - maybe it's me?
Micro, by Michael Crichton - okay enough
Poison Flower, by Thomas Perry - another series, this one of Jane Whitefield. I really like the character, though the stories get a bit far-fetched.


Listening:
Just finished listening to Zero Day (Baldacci) and Victims (Jonathan Kellerman). Baldacci introduces his version of Jack Reacher. He's damn near a twin to Reacher. Victims was okay, but, as above, the latest in a series, and I think it's maybe a little tired. All the repeat characters are just so damned predictable.

I read the first three a few years ago, and ICE STATION was a real page turner, a riveting macho book andt I liked it. And after 25 pages the newest is exciting again.

Shane Schofield (Scarecrow), leader of a team of Marines - the Seals play some major parts here and there.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/R_Authors/Reilly_Matthew.html

I also read Temple by the same author and my notes say that I didn't finish it because I didn't like it. It's not part of the series tho



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and being underwhelmed. It was one long action sequence with no time to speak of for characters or wonder. Sort of like if the opening scene of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" had been extended to two and a half hours of Indy running from the big rolling ball without exposition.

I haven't read anything else by him because of that.

But Ice Station was his best.

One of the things a guy might take some interest in is the guns. So many types that I was lost. I don't know a beebee gun from an AK147......

I would skip paragraphs here and there. Especially the type where the hero threw the gizmo northward, and from the east came the bad gas, fromt stack, blah blah blah..and almost quit.

But I got hooked and stayed with it with a smile. Only Scarecrow and Mother (short for mthfckr) could get away with it....

I needed something escapy like that this week....

by Susan Jacoby

An excellent read that I picked up at a garage sale. Could not put it down and just finished it tonight. Anyone who lived through the 60's/70's/80's/90's, or is in a book club, or is tight with their neighbors, or is an activist, or has broken out of an abusive relationship will enjoy this one. I was startled at how good it was.

"The Son of the Wolf" by Jack London

9th and newest mystery in the Peculiar Crimes Unit Series....with Bryant and May in London....someday I may try some of Fowler's standalone books.


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